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Show Georgia may yet desire to cast its Tote for Tyrua Cobb. The gladdest words of tongue or pen are: "Fair and warmer," weather man. Boston astronomers have discovered a new star. Second base or shortstop? short-stop? Occasionally the weather man forgets for-gets himself and lets us enjoy a pleasant day. Explorers tell us that there are valuable val-uable coal deposits at the south pole, Hot to mention the Ice The prodigal son no longer comes back to share In the fatted calf. He prefers to wire for a draft. Some think a Chinese wall should be built along the Mexican border, and then let them scrap it out. Another blow to the popularity of the turkey trot A Judge in Connecticut Connecti-cut rules that it is not immoral. The Pulitzer Bchool of journalism has refused to admit women. Thr will, therefore, be no journalettes. A Missouri man hit his wife with a pound of butter.. He seemed to think a soft answer would turn away wrath. Scientists say It is too cold on Mars to support life. Perhaps, though, the planet Is like Boston merely intellectual. intellec-tual. Butter can be made directly from grass, says a scientific sharp, and perhaps per-haps It can. We have long had apple butter. Massachusetts legislators propose a tax of $5 a year on bachelors and Bome of them claim the freedom is worth it A Philadelphia citizen says he lives on $1 a week, but he does not say who feeds and clothes him in the meantime. The druggist who boasts that he has accumulated 175,000 prescriptions has no statistics to show how many of tbem cured. In Nyack, which is in New York, not Tasmania or Saxe-Melningen, the best elective offices are seeking men to fill them. A London specialist proposes to cure baldness by grafting hair on the dome. This will create a demand for Ivory experts. A health expert avers that standing on the head will clear the brain, but too much of It Is likely to develop a race of flatheads. The average baseball fan cares not a whit about the malefactions of the baseball trust as long as the home team wins a pennant A Baltimore man has just undergone under-gone his twenty-fourth surgical operation. oper-ation. In one way he is qualified to be the village cut-up. An astronomer In that dear Paris Informs us that the earth is 100,000,-D00 100,000,-D00 years old What are a few ciphers ci-phers more or less? Modern court procedure Is said to be a Joke, but the Joke is on the poor wretch who has not enough money to hire a flock of lawyers. With both poles discovered and public Interest on the wane, it looks as If our professional discoverers may be forced to go to work. The Arctic explorer says dog meat Is delicious. In spite of which expert opinion It seems cannibalistic to be eating man's best friends. A preacher man tells us that the Baddest hour of the day comes after sunset, but our saddest hour comes when the alarm clock rings, i . It took a woman to run down New York's taxlcab bandits. Next thing we know we shall hear of the Adventures Adven-tures of Mrs. Sherlock Holmes. A financier informs us that the man who earns $19 25 a week is worth $25,000. The only trouble is that some financier has charge of the $25,000. Chicago man is being tried for having married seven women, but there are those who believe that he should be examined by a flock of alienists. A Maryland citizen committed suicide sui-cide rather than submit to an operation opera-tion for appendicitis. Evidently he preferred an undertaker's bill to a doctor's bll. |